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Glycerine producers and suppliers in Poland: the physical source map

OxyLens has mapped the plants that make, refine or hold glycerine in Poland, starting from the official register of biocomponent producers and the certification schemes rather than from distributor listings. Each source is resolved to a legal entity and a site, with its grades, a dated sign that the plant runs, and the questions a buyer still has to ask.

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What OxyLens has mapped in Polish glycerine

10physical sources: biodiesel, refining, oleochemical and soap plants
4of them with strong evidence: an active site, a stated glycerine sale and a contact
1on the intermediaries list: traders with storage, kept apart from the plants
22candidate sources researched, each with source links and quotes

Registers and certificates read on 2026-09-23. The registered plants in the map hold 1,584.15 of the 1,609.15 million litres a year of registered FAME capacity. That is a share of registered capacity, not of output.

How the Polish glycerine market is structured

Crude glycerine is a coproduct of transesterification, so every FAME (biodiesel) plant makes it. The national register of biocomponent producers kept by KOWR has 20 entries; 8 of them are FAME plants. The others make bioethanol or hydrotreated fuels, which yield no glycerine. REACH does not help here: the number of Polish companies among the ECHA registrants of glycerol is 0.

Source typeIn the mapWhat it means for a buyer
Biodiesel plants making crude glycerine4The bulk of the crude supply. Output, grade and whether it is sold at all differ by plant
Plants that refine glycerine (most also sell crude)4Technical and refined grades; some also use glycerine on site
Oleochemical and soap plants2A smaller second tier, found through the certificate schemes and the animal-by-product register
Intermediaries with storage1Hold product; kept separate from the plants

The market is small and partly closed. Some producers use their glycerine themselves, some may route it inside their group, and one esterifies as a service for another owner. "Produces glycerine" and "sells glycerine" are therefore two separate facts for every plant.

What OxyLens verifies for each source

  • Legal entity and group: KRS number, owner and name history, so a renamed or sold plant is not listed twice or under a former name.
  • Facility: the registered plant, its address and its FAME capacity where the register states one.
  • Physical role: biodiesel producer, refiner, oleochemical producer, captive user, trader with storage.
  • Grade: crude, technical or refined, in the seller's own words, with the date of any published specification. A "technical 80 %" label is crude by glycerol content.
  • Freshness: a current production certificate (KZR INiG, REDcert or ISCC) or other dated evidence that the plant runs. Older evidence is shown as older.
  • Evidence and contact: a source link and quote per fact, and the published sales desk where there is one.
  • First-call questions: guaranteed glycerol content per lot, open market or committed, and who owns the glycerine at a toll plant.

Sample sources from the map

Examples from the 10 physical sources, as OxyLens shows them, with facts as read on 2026-09-23. Certificates change; the application holds the full record as of that date, with the contacts, evidence quotes and the questions for each call.

Euroservice (Surochów)

EUROSERVICE Zakłady Przemysłu Tłuszczowego w Surochowie Sp. z o.o. (KRS 0000164160)

Site: Surochów (gm. Jarosław), Podkarpackie

Role: FAME (biodiesel) plant making crude glycerine; trader with storage

Verified:

  • KOWR register of biocomponent producers: FAME plant, 475.65 mln l/year
  • KZR INiG production certificate BVC/KZR/046/26, valid to 2027-04-29
  • Glycerine grades stated by the company: crude

Bioagra-Oil (Tychy)

BIOAGRA-OIL S.A. (KRS 0000264450)

Site: Tychy, Śląskie

Role: FAME (biodiesel) plant making crude glycerine; glycerine refining

Verified:

  • KOWR register of biocomponent producers: FAME plant, 268.79 mln l/year
  • REDcert-EU production certificate EU-REDcert-521-01345001, valid to 2027-06-30
  • Glycerine grades stated by the company: crude, technical, refined

Envien Biopaliwa Polska (Czechowice-Dziedzice)

ENVIEN BIOPALIWA POLSKA Sp. z o.o. (KRS 0000065231)

Site: Czechowice-Dziedzice, Śląskie

Role: FAME (biodiesel) plant making crude glycerine

Verified:

  • KOWR register of biocomponent producers: FAME plant, 124.58 mln l/year
  • KZR INiG production certificate URS 018154/01/01, valid to 2027-09-22
  • Glycerine grades stated by the company: crude

Coverage and limits

Strongest for registered and certified producers. The register covers every FAME plant licensed to supply the fuel market, and a sweep of 70 certificates (every Polish processing scope, and production scopes that lapsed within 24 months) reached the second tier. A refiner, upgrader or trader certified under no scheme is invisible.

Freshness varies. 2 of the sources in the map rest on older evidence for their glycerine unit and are marked as likely active, not active. An independent refiner is left out of the map, because nothing dates its line after 2022.

Specifications, volumes and prices are not public. Only one producer publishes a current guaranteed specification. Lot analysis, tonnage and price come from the call.

How the map was built

  1. Enumerate from the authoritative list: the KOWR register of biocomponent producers, checked against its published PDF.
  2. Read the KZR INiG, REDcert and ISCC certificate lists in full for production and processing scopes, and the GIW animal-by-product register for glycerine handlers.
  3. Resolve every candidate to a legal entity and a site through KRS and the VAT register.
  4. Date the relevant operation, not the company: a current production certificate or a recent dated statement.
  5. Record grades and specifications as published, and turn every unknown into a first-call question.

In Polish offers crude glycerine appears as gliceryna surowa or faza glicerynowa, refined grades as gliceryna destylowana or farmaceutyczna.

For grades, specifications and customs codes in general, see crude glycerine buyers and suppliers. The same method mapped Polish category 3 animal fat and Polish used cooking oil.

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